Quotes About Emptiness

The more humans fill the world, the more we empty it.

Mile after mile of rolling blue prairie flows beneath us, stretching to the ends of the earth, revealing nothing.

To be not alone, even for a few moments, is worth the pain and the danger.

Why didn't it happen between us? Why did I fail? Why did you come close enough...and not closer?

Well, they say nature hates a vacuum. - That's what they say, but sometimes I think that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

BRICK: Well, they say nature hates a vacuum, Big Daddy. BIG DADDY: That's what they say, but sometimes I think that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the Universe would be if one were all alone

Dar gândurile lui erau sec?tuite È™i sumbre È™i, în t?cerea ce le urm?, se pomeni fa??-n fa?? cu spectrul rânjit al propriei disper?ri.

After last night, he felt that the first part, his fantasy of being with her, was just an empty wish.

Because after my marriage fell apart I felt like an empty parking space, and James just pulled into it.

Nothing-to-see is what most of the universe consists of.

bazen, dedi, kalbim duruyor sanki.bazen kalbimin att???n? hiç ama hiç hissetmiyorum.

Whoever is not tied to possessions, clinging neither to body nor mind, is never in bondage.

watching the undergraduates make out. They laughed, but the sight hurt her, like a tightness in her chest that kept her from breathing freely. How long had it been since she'd kissed anyone?

El mundo está lleno de personas que se sienten incompletas, personas que tienen todo lo que pueden desear y que sin embargo no son felices, personas que se sienten solas en una multitud. El mundo está poblado casi exclusivamente de fantasmas.

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

I come here empty-handed, and I go empty-handed. My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

We can feel lonely even when we're surrounded by many people. We are lonely together. There is a vacuum inside us. We don't feel comfortable with that vacuum, so we try to fill it up or make it go away. Technology supplies us with many devices that allow us to "stay connected." These days, we are always "connected," but we continue to feel lonely.

Often our perceptions are incorrect. We get in touch with an object and think that it embodies love, happiness, a self, or purity. We tend to think that love is something sentimental that will fill the emptiness inside us. We blame our suffering on another person or group, or on bad luck, but outside conditions are not the reason it appears. Our suffering was already there.

Emptiness means to be full of everything but empty of a separate existence.

4. All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them. I cannot keep anything. I come here empty-handed, and I go empty-handed.

The notion or emptiness in Buddhism is derived from the notion of non-identity. Emptiness ( suryata ) signifies the hollow space at the interior of a thing, the absence of identity of this thing, and not the absence of the thing itself. The image is that of a balloon. The balloon is empty; in the same way, everything is devoid of absolute identity.

People don't dare let go of the mind, they grasp onto the mind. They can let go of the objects of the mind, but they don't dare to let go of the mind. Why? We're afraid of falling into a place where we think there will be nothing to feel, to touch, to pick up, afraid we'll have nothing left. But emptiness doesn't mean nothingness.

Accustomed as we are to being constantly occupied, if these occupations should happen to be taken from us, we find ourselves empty and abandoned. We then refuse to confront ourself and instead go off in search of friends, to mix in with the crowd, to listen to the radio or to the television, to get rid of this impression of emptiness.